The Rational and Natural Mind: From Concepts to the Language of Thought - Couverture souple

Verdejo, Víctor M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639171683 ISBN 13 : 9783639171686

Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

The human mind presents itself as an object of study which dovetails a rational and a physical nature. Víctor M. Verdejo examines in this book both dimensions of the mind by elucidating the distinctive and common features of a genuinely philosophical and a genuinely empirical approach. The target philosophical theory, based upon neo-Fregean developments, is the one that constitutively appeals to the notion of rationality and that works within what is called the Rationality Framework (RF). The target empirical theory, celebrated in cognitive science, is the Language of Thought Hypothesis (LOT). At the heart of both theories there is the assumption of realism about mental states and the categories of folk psychology, and they can be seen as providing (rationalist and empirical) articulations of the view that folk-psychological explanation is of a legitimate kind. According to Verdejo's proposal, a correct analysis of these theories ultimately shows the possibility of a unifying picture of the mind, one in which philosophical research on nonmechanical rationality and empirical research on mechanical mental processes go very much hand in hand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639171683
• ISBN 13: 9783639171686
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 168
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• Personne responsable: non disponible